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2 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Ben Mathis-Lilley
Politics Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is widely regarded as being a potential future Democratic presidential candidate. He’s got credibility with the party’s more militant factions thanks to his uncompromising positions on subjects like abortion, but he’s also shown pragmatic executive competence by, for instance, restoring Illinois’ credit rating.
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2 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Ben Mathis-Lilley
Politics Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Hello once again from the Surge, Slate’s roundup of the most relevant characters of the week in the delightful novel called United States Politics in 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Ben Mathis-Lilley
Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Hello once again from the Surge, Slate’s roundup of the most relevant characters of the week in the delightful novel called United States Politics in 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Ben Mathis-Lilley
1 hour agoLatest Updates: Mourners Bid Solemn Farewell to Pope FrancisApril 26, 2025, 6:03 a.m. ET Emma Bubola reported from Vatican City.
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2 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Ben Mathis-Lilley
He thinks there's a simple fix. Yikes.
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2 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Ben Mathis-Lilley
Care and Feeding Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, Several days ago, I came home from a much-needed girls’ night out with some friends to find my 6-year-old son “Finn” in tears. When I asked my husband “Ryan” what happened, he explained that Finn had taken apart one of his (Ryan’s) expensive Lego sets, and he had punished Finn by flushing his goldfish down the toilet.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Ben Mathis-Lilley
3 hours agoMarisa Peters experienced blood in her stool and an urgency to go starting at 33. At 39, she learned she had Stage 3 colorectal cancer. In late 2015, Marisa Peters, then 33, noticed blood on the toilet paper after a bowel movement. Worried, she visited her doctor, who dismissed her concerns as …
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2 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Ben Mathis-Lilley
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I have two daughters, “Amelia,” 9, and “Olivia,” 6. Amelia has always been sort of a miniature adult–very quiet, serious, and studious. Olivia loves to be silly, can be boisterous, likes to finger paint, and play with her toys. In other words, she behaves like a typical 6-year-old.
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3 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Ben Mathis-Lilley
Welcome to Margin of Terror, a new column in which we’ll track the reception the second Donald Trump presidency is getting from the United States electorate. As befits a political environment in which every faction can build its own siloed version of reality, we’ll try to go beyond the top-line approval numbers to try to figure out how Trump is faring with various demographic and cultural subgroups whose support (or indifference) was crucial to his victory in 2024 .
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3 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Ben Mathis-Lilley
This is part of Egg, an attempt to explain why Americans have absolutely lost their minds over egg prices. Our long national egg nightmare may soon be over—but other inflation freakouts are likely just getting started. What can the humble but recently quite expensive egg tell us about what lies ahead? Right now, prices for eggs on grocery store shelves are still very high.
